Climate Research Unit Hacked – Sensitive Documents Dumped to Internet

And it ain’t a happy day for the CRU. True, this is a cybercrime, and the perpetrator(s) should be brought to justice. But equally as big is the contents of the >1000 e-mails and >3800 documents.

The Hadley Climate Research Unit has confirmed the hack, so this is not a hoax, and global-warming-skeptic sites like "Watts Up With That" and Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald-Sun newspaper are sifting through the data, finding some rather compromising evidence. Some include details on how temperature data was manipulated, to frustration that the climate models didn’t predict the current global temp decline, to attempts to obfuscate data released via a Freedom of Information request. Bolt has been updating his post frequently and has a dozen examples so far.

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I think that the CRU might still have ownership of the data and how it was disseminated. That’s just a guess. However, yes, the internal wrangling over FOI requests does make it sound like they were less than forthcoming with what should, ultimately, been freely available data.

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